The Kindness Effect: How to Live, Work, and Feel Better

Kindness is our key tool to finding purpose and meaning in our jobs and working at our highest potential. In this popular talk, discover the research behind Kindness, how it improves business results, why we don’t practice it more often, and how to bring Kindness into every element of the workplace culture to achieve a stronger, happier, and more productive work environment.

September 18, 2024
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12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Nicole Yelsey
Nicole Yelsey
Co-Founder & COO, KindWorks.AI

Nicole leads operations, marketing, and strategy at KindWorks.AI. She has 20 years of experience in marketing, brand, and business development, working on both the client and agency sides for large Fortune 100 companies and early-stage startups. She led brands at Anheuser-Busch InBev and served as Director of Brand Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In her agency leadership experience, she grew US business into a diversity of new industries and revenue streams working with brands such as Sephora, Nickelodeon, IBM, Chrysler, and more. Nicole has led and grown teams, products, and businesses from conception to scale. She is a solution-focused leader who understands how to design a big-picture vision and to efficiently and effectively operationalize it. She hosts the podcast On Kindness where she speaks with leaders of all ages and geographies to discern what Kindness means to them and why it’s critical to our future.

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